Starting from Kuandian Fort, passing through Liangma Dian, passing through the Barnyard East Geling, and crossing the Niumao Ridge, camping in Niumaozhai (now Huanren Dadianzi Village). It took four days and 230 miles, an average of almost 60 miles a day.

For most armies, a 60-mile march a day is considered a relatively fast march, but the whole road here is mountainous, not an easy plain to walk. Many places are difficult for people to walk, not to mention carrying all kinds of weapons and bedding, and many places require people to push pack horses to walk.

That is, the hard-working Praetorian Guard, most of the soldiers came from poor peasant families, and under strict training, they had tenacity and perseverance. If you change to other border troops, you won't be able to go so fast at all.

When I arrived at Niumao Village, it was only 200 miles away from Hetuala. After traveling such a long distance, only in Niumaozhai did I encounter more than a dozen families of Jiannu banners, and the rest of the place was an empty mountainous area.

Even these dozen or so banner people never imagined that a Ming army would suddenly appear here, and when they were caught off guard, they were surrounded by the vanguard of the village, and in order to prevent leakage of news, all the banner people in the village were killed.

In a thatched hut of a banner man, Lu Xiangsheng opened the map and carefully studied the next route.

In the battle of Salhu, Liu Wei led the Ming army and the Korean coalition army, and the military rations were completely transported from North Korea, and after arriving at Niumaozhai, the supplies could not keep up, so they had to stay here for two days, and then continue to march. It is only 200 miles from Niumaozhai to Hetuala, and if Liu Wei's army marches at a speed of 60 miles, it will only take four days to reach the city of Hetuala. It's a pity that he was delayed for a day in Niumaozhai, and then the speed of the march was a little slow, and it took another three days to reach the deep river one hundred and thirty miles away from Hetuala, and fought a battle with the few Eight Banners soldiers stationed on the east road of Jiannu, but he won. Then, because the Korean army ran out of food, the army stayed in the deep river for two days.

That is, the delay of these three or four days, Jiannu defeated the general army of Juniper and the general army of Ma Lin, the main force of Jiannu returned to help, blocking Liu Ling's department, Jiannu's army flanked left and right, defeated Liu Ling's department, Liu Wei also died on the spot, 40,000 troops, only a few soldiers fled back to Kuandian.

At that time, Liu Lingbu was only a hundred miles away from Hetuala!

After reading all the documents of the Ministry of War on the Battle of Salhu, Lu Xiangsheng's experience of Liu Ling's department is naturally clear, if Liu Ling's army can keep up, and the march is more decisive and faster, there is enough time to rush to Hetuala before the two Ming armies of the general soldier Juniper and the general soldier Ma Lin are defeated by Jiannu, and the Hetuala's army at that time is empty, Liu Ling can completely fight down. And when the old nest of Jiannu is captured, the morale of the soldiers in front will inevitably be low, and maybe the history of the Battle of Salhu will be rewritten.

It's a pity that what happened has happened, and history can't repeat itself, and while Lu Xiangsheng regrets it, he can only learn a lesson.

Therefore, this expedition, from the beginning of the army, enough military rations were prepared, and each soldier carried twenty catties of fried noodles, which could support the army for at least half a month, and there was no need to transport food from the rear at all.

Marched sixty miles a day, and did not dare to delay at all. The army only rested for the night in Niumaozhai.

From Niumaozhai to the north, closer and closer to Hetuala, you can often see the Tun village of the Jiannu banner people in the valley, but this is still a Mangmang mountainous area, only a small flat land between the mountains, which is not suitable for farming at all, and most of the Jiannu living here live by hunting. It's just that the adult bannermen in Tuncun have all been transferred, and only the old and weak women and children are left in Tuncun, and there is no possibility of resistance at all in the face of the sudden appearance of the Ming army.

And Lu Xiangsheng just sent a small army casually, and let these tun villages be wiped out, and the food he grabbed was just enough to replenish military supplies.

After passing through a place called Huajianzi Village, according to the documents of the Ministry of War, Liu Wei's troops should have fought fiercely with the Jiannu army in the mountains and valleys to the north, and then were defeated and killed by Jiannu. The valley of winter is empty and lonely, and there is no trace of the battlefield, and it is only more than ninety miles away from Hetuala.

Further north, the terrain suddenly opens up, and if you stand on the top of the highest mountain, you can see that there are many patches of mountain flatlands in the north, like veins on the leaves, and in the middle of the flat land there is a wide river called the Suzi River, and dozens of streams gush out of the mountains and join the Suzi River. It's just that it's winter, and all the rivers are frozen, so the army can easily walk along the river.

There are many tun villages in the flat land, these tun villages are built by the river, many tun villages are very large, you can see the tall wall. And this is the most fat place in Jianzhouwei, and it is also where Jiannu's former lair is located, and the old capital of Jiannu, Hetuala, is on this flat land!

The arrival of the Praetorian Guards has been noticed by the Jiannu here, when the Praetorian Guards crossed the mountain to this flat land, there was already a Eight Banners to greet at the southernmost foot of the mountain, but the number was only more than 1,000, and it was estimated that it was already all the bannermen of the Jiannu lair.

In order to prevent the Ming army from attacking Liaoyang, Bel Amin, who stayed in Shenyang, ordered all the banners to be conscripted, and the bannermen in the old land of Jianzhou were no exception, basically all of them were recruited to Shenyang. If it weren't for the fact that Hetuara was the old capital of Jiannu and there was Nurhachi's tomb, there would not even be more than 1,000 bannermen.

Not counting the coats, not counting the Mongols, there are probably less than 70,000 bannermen in Jiannu now, and the total number of bannermen is only 300,000 or 400,000, of which 20%, about 780,000 Jiannu people live in the old land of Jianzhouwei, that is, in this leaf-like vein-like mountain flatland.

The adult flag man was summoned to Shenyang, where the old land of Jianzhou was defended, and most of the rest were people without force.

Because the secrecy work is done well, because the road from Kuandian to here is full of sparsely populated mountainous areas, I know that two days ago, the Jiannu here only knew the news of the Ming army's attack. At the same time as ordering people to report to Shenyang, they quickly assembled and tried to block the Ming army from entering this flat land.

It's not impossible, at this moment, the Ming army is still on the mountain road, where it is very rugged and narrow, and the team is several miles long. These more than 1,000 bannermen tried to block the entrance to the valley leading to the flat land and block the Ming army in the mountains.

Looking at the Jiannu Qiding in the distance, Cao Bianjiao, as a pioneer, sneered.

The mountains here are too low, the slopes are very gentle, and Jiannu wants to rely on more than a thousand soldiers to block the way of the army, which is really a pipe dream!

Cao Bianjiao personally led more than 1,000 soldiers to approach Jiannu, fired at Jiannu with firearms, and sent hundreds of soldiers to climb the slopes on both sides, set up artillery on the hillsides, and launched an artillery bombardment on the blockade of the valley Dujiannu.

Although the artillery with the army is more than 100 catties, but the condescending power is amazing, especially the Franco machine artillery, the use of the child and mother gun, the rate of fire is extremely fast, more than 20 artillery guns at the same time, the Jiannu people who shoot on their backs.

The Praetorian Guards are equipped with a large number of firearms, which may not be as fast as Jiannu's bows and arrows, but their power is much greater than that of bows and arrows. And the Mandarin Duck battle jacket embedded in the iron plate on the Praetorian Guard's body was enough to withstand most of the arrows.

In this case, the Jiannu Banner and the Praetorian Guards could not take advantage of each other at all.

The anxious Jiannu tried to approach the Praetorian Guard, using the tactics of hand-to-hand combat, but was blocked by the Praetorian Guard's shield spear array, and the Praetorian Guard went around from the slopes on both sides to the back of it. An hour later, the battle finally ended with the last Jiannu Bannerman killed.

The old capital of Jianzhou, the most fertile old land of Jianzhouwei, like a beautiful girl stripped naked, appeared in front of the Praetorian Guard.

At this moment, this plain with a radius of 100 miles and a population of 780,000 trees and veins has no way to stop the Praetorian Guard!

According to the plan formulated in advance, Cao Bianjiao led two battalions of 6,000 soldiers, as the vanguard, and quickly killed Hetuala, the old capital of Jiannu, all the way to Hetuala.

At this moment, Hetuara was in a panic, and at this moment there was no guard force at all, and Cao Bianjiao easily attacked the city with his army.

Hetuala, the old capital of Jiannu, was built in the 31st year of Wanli, it has been nearly 30 years since now, the city is divided into two cities, the inner city is four miles long, originally inhabited by Nurhachi and his concubines and children, the outer city is nine miles long, inhabited by the elite eight banner guards. At the north gate of the outer city, the blacksmiths, bowsmiths and other craftsmen who built slaves lived in different areas. All in all, Hetuara is where Jiannu is the most elite.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi sent the capital to Shenyang, and most of the banner people living on this plain also moved into the fertile plain, and Hetuara also lost its former status, and most of the people living in the city were frustrated, such as Nurhachi's many concubines, and those concubines, who were driven back here from Shenyang by Huang Taiji.

Now these Jiannu clans are all in the hands of Cao Bianjiao, among which there are seven or eight concubines of Nurhachi, and there are more than ten children in the concubines.

Cao Bianjiao didn't have time to insult these Jiannu clans, and after leaving hundreds of soldiers to guard the city and take prisoners, he led his army all the way to the west, and rushed to Yahu Pass a day later, defeating more than 100 Eight Banner soldiers who stayed behind in Yahu Pass, and occupying this Guancheng located on the side wall.

The Yahu Pass is the only place to pass through from Fushun to Jianzhou Wei, and the Yahu Pass to be defended, even if the Jiannu army comes from Shenyang in time, if you don't capture the Yahu Pass, you don't want to enter Jianzhou. Guarding the Yahu Pass will have enough time to deal with these 70,000 or 80,000 Jiannu women and children.

And from the Yahu Pass to the west, you can attack Fushun Pass, and after Fushun Pass is Shenyang.

However, as soon as he arrived at Yahu Pass, Cao Bianjiao received an order from Lu Xiangsheng, ordering him to lead his own army to continue westward and capture Fushun, and the main force of the army would follow.